Gary Shteyngart - Absurdistan (2006)

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She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.

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Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.

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It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.

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We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.

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The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

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On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.

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